page_title: List of German inventors and discoverers
section_title: E
hierarchical_section_title: List of German inventors and discoverers / E
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Caroline Eichler, Erfinderin der ersten modernen Arm- und Beinprothesen. Portrait von Johann Georg Weinhold, verlegt bei Ernst Arnold in Dresden, 41.5 x 33 cm. English: Portrait of Caroline Eichler, inventor of the first modern arm and leg prostheses.
context_page_description: This is a list of German inventors and discoverers. The following list comprises people from Germany or German-speaking Europe, and also people of predominantly German heritage, in alphabetical order of the surname.
context_section_description: Paul Ehrlich: Scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel laureate. Developed an effective treatment against syphilis.
  Caroline Eichler: Inventor, first woman to receive a patent (for her leg prosthesis)
  Albert Einstein: Theoretical physicist, key 20th century scientist and cultural icon.
  Ludwig Elsbett: Developed new concepts for Diesel engines which drastically enhanced efficiency.
  Douglas Engelbart: German American inventor of the computer mouse.
  Evaristo Conrado Engelberg: Inventor in 1885 of a machine used to remove the husks from rice and coffee, the Engelberg huller.
  Friedrich Engels: He invented together with Karl Marx the economic and sociopolitical worldview Marxism. 
  Hugo Erdmann: Chemist who discovered, together with his doctoral advisor Jacob Volhard, the Volhard-Erdmann cyclization. In 1898 he was the first who coined the term noble gas (the original noun is Edelgas in German).
  Hugo Erfurt: Ingrain wallpaper
  Gerhard Ertl:  German physicist who laid the foundation of modern surface chemistry, which has helped explain how fuel cells produce energy without pollution, how catalytic converters clean up car exhausts and even why iron rusts, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Nobel laureate as of 2007.
  Leonhard Euler: Swiss mathematician and physicist. One of the most influential mathematicians of the 18th century.
  Emil Erlenmeyer: German chemist known for contributing to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask or the conical flask, a type of chemical flask, which is named after him.
caption: Inventor Caroline Eichler
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